WEBVTT IT WAS THE RECORD NO ONE WANTED TO SEE BROKEN... WHEN ON MAY 31ST - A TORNADO BECAME A 2 AND A HALF MILE WIDE MONSTER. TODAY, EL RENO IS STILL HURTING, BUT ON THEIR WAY TOWARDS RECOVERY. THIS SATURDAY, MARKS THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY THE COMMUNITY WILL NEVER FORGET. THE TORNADO STARTED IN A RURAL AREA, BUT EVENTUALLY TRACKED OVER THE INTERSTATE LEAVING 16 MILES WORTH OF DESTRUCTION. AND CAUSED PARTS OF OKLAHOMA CITY TO FLOOD. K-O-C-O'S WENDELL EDWARDS TAKES A LOOK AT A TRAILER PARK THAT WAS DEVASTATED BY FLOODING, AND HOW THEY ARE DOING A YEAR LATER. TAKE A CLOSE LOOK .. YOU WOULD BE HARD-PRESSED TO KNOW ... A YEAR AGO THIS ENTIRE NEIGBHORHOOD .. FLOODED WITH WATER. it got up to the top of the skirting, but it didn't come inside. ANGELA NEWNAM REMEMBERS IT VIVIDLY. SKY-5 FLEW ABOVE HER HOME .. ABOVE RIVERSIDE MOBILE HOME PARK IN MIDWEST CITY. it was scary, it was panic, and it was chaos. You don't know what's going on. SHE LIVES NEXT TO CRUCHO CREEK ... If you looked right here, it was literally rushing in here like white water rapids. ROADS IMPASSABLE ... A COMMUNITY IN SHAMBLES ...FOR 5 DAYS. A PROTECTIVE LEVY AROUND THE PARK .. OVERWHELMED. with almost 10 inches of rain in a short period of time the water had gotten so high, it went to the front of the park and flooded that area. TODAY ... A MUCH DIFFERENT PICTURE. the community is thriving again, the way it did before the flood. The residents are happy. THE NEIGHBORHOOD BACK TO NORMAL. BUT NOT WITHOUT A STRUGGLE. at the height of this storm, dozens had to be rescued. When the water was all gone, about a third of the residents who lived here didn't come back. And the park owner says, that, not the storm, is what hurt the most. STEVEN PALENKO, OWNS THIS PARK. I'm a steward of this community. That was the emotional impact losing those people to other communities. THE PARK NOW NEARLY 85- PERCENT FULL AND GROWING. this is a strong community. We worked together. We stayed strong. A COMMUNITY THAT DIDN'T KNOW WHAT STRONG WAS .. UNTIL STRONG WAS ALL THEY HAD. IN MIDWEST CITY, WENDELL EDWARDS KOCO 5 NEWS. IT WAS NOT JUST THAT TRAILER